Long Beach Candidate Blames Schools for Douglas Merger
Frank Bowman, a Long Beach Unified School District Board candidate, argues that local schools neglected vocational education, contributing to Douglas Aircrafts forced merger with McDonnell. He cites a April completion goal and urges more hands-on training to prepare technicians for a jet age.
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L.B. Schools
Douglas
Douglas Aircraft Co
Long Beach
Frank Bowman
Long Beach Unified
Bowman
California State College At
State Board of Education
Douglas Aids 2700 in Shop Skills Training
Douglas Aircraft Co plants in Long Beach and Torrance join a State Department program to train milllathe operators aircraft assemblers and farm builders. Northrop Norair plant also participates. Douglas receives 869016 and Northrop 234543 to run the project financed by federal Manpower Development and Training Act funds.
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Douglas Aircraft Co
Long Beach
Torrance
State Department of Industrial Relations
Douglas
Gram. Northrop
Northrop
Cleric Objects to Prayers Before Municipal Meetings
Costa Mesa minister Rev Roger Walke of the Unitarian Universalist Church urged officials to drop local clergy prayers from city meetings. He called the practice unnecessary and disagreed with forcing his viewpoint on others while noting prayers do not improve meeting outcomes. Walke criticized the custom as not essential and said the city should end the practice.
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Costa Mesa
Roger Walke
Theltion
U.S
Unitarian
Ilice
Walke
Neces
Bus Firms Exempt From Diesel Taxes Parcel
Sacramento Long Beach Transportation Co and 39 other urban bus firms would be exempt from state diesel fuel taxes under a bill set for introduction next week.
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SACRAMENTO — _ Long Beach Transportation Co
Alleged Slayer Pleads Insanity in Orange County Case
Robert Willard Liberty, 19, pleaded innocent by reason of insanity to a murder charge and was ordered to elace a jury trial April 19 in Orange County Superior Court. Liberty is accused of the June 4 1966 strangulation of Mrs. Marcella Landis, 31, with whom he shared an apartment at 8382 Westminster Ave Westminster, for several weeks. Assemblyman James A. Hayes proposes a 2 million dollar annual tax relief measure for bus operators, signaling broader subsidization impacts.
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Robert Willard Liberty
Orange County Superior Court
Liberty
Marcella Landis
Westminster Ave
Westminster
James A. Jayes
Long Beach
Long Beach Transportation Inn
Hayes
Slayes
Orange County Poverty War in Doubt After Vote
Federal funds for Orange County’s war on poverty remain in jeopardy despite a hurried bylaw vote by the Community Action Council. Regional officials will decide if changes align with federal rules, potentially delaying the annual All-city Kite Contest and related events amid funding concerns.
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Orange County
Barbara Knesis
Community Action Council
Cacy
Regional Office of Economic Opportunities
OEO
Bixby Park
Junipero Avenue
Cafs
Joseph
Will Bel
Yes
Municipal Auditorium
Tanner Than
Casillas
Thei
Survival capsules sail to North Sea oil rigs from Long Beach
Two 28-man pumpkin shaped Life Spheres capsules built by Life Spheres Co of Long Beach are loaded onto a ship bound for a North Sea drilling rig. Milton Brucker notes they cannot sink and deploy in 50 seconds from a platform. The craft feature fireproof hulls, air supply for an hour, xenon flares, a radio, a toilet, and a sprinkler system to fight surface flames.
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Long Beach
North Sea
Life Spheres Co
Milton Brucker
Brucker
Gus Englehard
Ste Spheres
Englehard
Henry Ford
Stavanger
Norway
Lawsuit Files Over Autopsy Error in Wifes Death
A $500000 suit was filed against Los Angeles County and ex deputy county medical examiner over an autopsy that led to Charles Meyer Stearns being charged with murder in his wife Darlene Stearns death. A later exhumation and second autopsy refuted the findings.
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Los Anggeles
Long Beach Bonds Repaid and Oil Revenue Up in 1965 66
City auditors report bonds totaling 1.37 million dollars retired in 1965 66 with 690681 dollars in interest paid. Oil and gas revenue from upland city property nearly doubled to 1.904 million, boosting total revenue to 2.071 million while net income fell to 1.119 million after Townlot development costs.
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Murray Z. Coulson
Couson
Long Beach
Harbor
Townlot
Courson
Largest Desalt Plant in Southland Gets $57.2 Million OK
A House subcommittee recommends $57.2 million toward the world’s largest nuclear desalting plant in Southern California on an artificial island off Bolsa Chica Beach. The total project cost is $445 million with $26.8 million proposed for one year of research. Senate already approved the federal funding. House action could send it back to the Senate.
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House of Representatives
California
Orange County
Bolsa Chica Beach
Senate
House
State Training Ship Due Here This Afternoon
The California Maritime Academy's training ship the Golden Bear will arrive in Long Beach Harbor this afternoon and be open to visitors from 1100 to 400 p.m. Sunday. It will tie at Long Beach Pier A Berth 1 at Pico Avenue. On board are 19 officers and 252 midshipmen, the entire Academy student body, completing sea training for future licensed officers. The Golden Bear leaves Long Beach Monday at 2 p.m. to resume the training cruise.
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California” Maritime Academy
Long Beach Harbor
Long Beach Pier A
Pico Avenue
Academy
Golden Bear
Long Beach
Oil worker falls eighty five feet on drill rig
A drilling rig worker, Jessie T. Potter, 37, Moran Brothers, fell 85 feet to a wooden floor at a Long Beach drilling site at 10:30 a.m. He underwent emergency surgery and remained listed in critical condition at Memorial Hospital, authorities said.
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Eels
Potter
Long Beach
Keran
Moran Brothers
Jessie T. Potter
Ofj
Thoms
29Th St
Apt
Long Beach Co
Arraignment and stabbing case tied to Harvey Harper incident
Robert Lindsey, 33, faces attempted murder charges after a barroom brawl left him critically injured and hospitalized at St Marys Hospital Long Beach. Alonzo Boddie, 20, arrested after stab wounds during the Harper violence, bail set at 5000 dollars as prosecutors seek action.
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Robert Lindsey
Ar Land
Boddie
Long Beach
St. Mary’s
Hosiva Court
Manga Oaspital
Iheart Passage
Lindsay
Tran
Faul
Alfonzial
Dep. Dist
Attv
Harvey Harper
Act Chest
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